NJ Weedman's Passing the Joint: There is a reefer revolution going on. Where are the weed smoking celebrities?

Snoop Dogg says he smoked weed in the White House. Hey Snoop, can you donate some cash and cannabis to The Legalize Marijuana Party of NJ?

Acknowledgement of marijuana use is at an all-time high. But Snoop trumps everyone with location, location, location! He may not be the first, but he is bragging about smoking in the White House. According to Bill O’Reilly’s website, 86% of Americans believe marijuana should be legal. Celebrities and politicians seem to be tripping over one another to point out that they smoke marijuana.

The defining moment when the national perception of a stoner went from Cheech & Chong to Presidential came in 2008: When presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was asked if he inhaled, he responded, “that was the point.” I voted for him more because he was a “stoner” than because he was a black man. I had hope that he’d legalize.

Why hasn’t this former stoner simply changed marijuana’s federal classification and made it legal?

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During my 30+ years of smoking marijuana, I’ve often said: If I were rich, I’d invest in marijuana-legalization efforts. Many celebrities have likely said it too, but when they get rich and find themselves above the law, they forget. But while they get great legal defenses and continue on with life, their poor childhood friends still go to jail and have their lives ruined. You want to give something back to the hoods? Support a Cannabis Candidate, support legalization.

In their youth Barack and his friends smoked marijuana and called themselves the Choom Gang. So this “stoner” Barack, the leader of the Choom Gang, became the most powerful man on the planet and he hasn’t legalized it. He’s allowing the destruction wreaked by the U.S. war on cannabis consumers to continue. He’s allowing the destruction of young men just like the Choom Gang leader that he was.

Potheads overwhelmingly voted for Barack in 2008. I held a celebration for him in 2010. In 2013 I also did 143 days in Burlington County’s “death house” jail. Obama can nod his head and people die halfway around the world. He could just as easily change the federal classification of marijuana if he were being true to himself as a “stoner.”

As a poor man, I’ve invested way too much time, effort, and familial sacrifice, but I still have pipe dreams of getting rich and spending my millions on cannabis legalization.

Was it a mistake that I took Bob Marley’s words seriously, “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights,” by fighting to end cannabis prohibition? Nah. Very few things would make me happier than ending the war on weed. But where are the celebrities in this reefer revolution?

Many stars and athletes consume massive amounts of expensive high-grade cannabis. They brag about it on TMZ, rappers and rockers sing about it. There is an online list of NBA players caught smoking weed – an enormous list. The NBA practically tells players months in advance when they’ll be tested, and still there are dumba**es who fail. I’ve never failed a pee test, and I was a trucker for 12 years. NBA members should be passing cash to cannabis candidates (such as, hint hint - me), like they pass those blunts between themselves. But they don’t.

The Salem witch trials lasted 15 months and resulted in the deaths of 20. The U.S. war on potheads has lasted 77 years so far, with hundreds of thousands of casualties. I think all celebrity cannabis consumers should join agains the war on marijuana from the “We The People” side. #snoopdogg, #whizKalifa, #kevinsmith, #queenLatifah, #legalizeNJ – hashtag every pothead celebrity you know and re-post this on twitter.

Back to Snoop Dogg in the White House with the leader of the Choom Gang, he is the President. Still, 900,000 Americans, including 22,000 New Jerseyans, get arrested for marijuana each year – mostly black men. And while these two particular black men were chillin’ in the White House, I wonder if either asked the other: What are you doing to stop the flow of “us” into America’s 21st-century concrete plantation systems?